The Vicinity Social Incentive Program for Merchants!

We’ve spent a ton of time talking about how as Vicinity merchants it pays to reward your customers. We believe in that sentiment for our merchants, but we also believe in rewarding our customer base of small business owners for helping to promote the program.

That’s where the Vicinity social incentive program comes in. We want to reward you for helping build the program among your own customer base and promoting it in-store and on your social media channels.

Basically, we’re kind of a big deal on the Internet and we want you to be too. By helping grow the program in your own store, we’ll promote your business to our ever-growing social networks and help expose you to more potential customers.

Here’s the long and short of it:

1. Sign up 50 customers in your first month of Vicinity Service: Get a Twitter shout out from @VicinityRewards

2.Sign up 75 customers in your first month of Vicinity Service: Get a Facebook shout out (our page is Facebook.com/VicinityRewards)

Post by Vicinity.

3. Tweet or tag @VicinityRewards in a photo featuring our window decal and earn a Facebook or Twitter shout out!

4. Sign up 250 customers in your first month of Vicinity service and earn a paid Facebook post promoted to our follower base

Post by Vicinity.

On top of all of this, with each milestone you hit you get an entry into a monthly draw to win $100 cash!
Check out the contest details below. Now get Tweeting, and make sure you follow us on Facebook and Twitter if you’re not already!

CONTEST RULES

Monthly Merchant Sign-Up Contest

The Monthly Merchant Sign-Up Contest (the “Contest”) is presented and administrated by

Vicinity, a business unit within Rogers Communications Inc. (herein referred as “Vicinity” or

“Contest Sponsor”). No purchase necessary.

1. ELIGIBILITY – The Contest is open to small business retailers in Canada, excluding the

province of Quebec). For better clarity, “small business retailer” means a retail merchant

and the eligible person to enter the Contest is the owner or manager operating the retail

business (individually “entrant” and altogether “entrants”). Entrants must have reached to

age of majority to be eligible.

Employees of Contest Sponsor, its parent and affiliated companies, representatives, dealers

and agents, contest suppliers and judges, and those with whom they are domiciled are not

2. CONTEST PERIOD – The Contest is being held from April 1, 2014 at 12:01am until

December 31, 2014 at 11:59 pm. All times are Eastern Standard or Daylight Saving, as

i) Retail merchants having signed up for Vicinity service: Earn one automatic entry or

multiple automatic entries as follows:

Sign up 50 customers in your first month of

Vicinity service Receive one (1) entry

Sign up 75 customers in your first month of

Vicinity service Receive two (2) entries

Sign up 250 Customers in your first month

of service Receive three (3) entries

Take a photo of your Vicinity door decal in

place on your storefront (name of store or

other clear indication of your location also

to be visible in the photo) and Tweet this

photo to @VicnityRewards

Each entrant will qualify for the monthly draw in which his/her entry(ies) were received.

ii) To enter without any cost, send a unique and original 100-word, handwritten essay

explaining why you believe Vicinity is the best service for small businesses in Canada

along with your name, address and day/evening phone number plus the name of your

retail business in an envelope with sufficient postage to “Rogers – Vicinity Merchant Sign

Up Contest” c/o Marketing Department, 545 Lake Shore Blvd West, Toronto, Ontario

M5V 1A3 to be received on or before the Contest Closing Date. Limit one (1) entry per

envelope and limit one (1) entry per person, per month. Each mail-in entry will count as

one (1) entry in the monthly draw in which the mail-in entry is received.

Any use of any entry methods not authorized by these rules shall be deemed as tampering

and will void all of your entries. All entries that are incomplete, illegible, damaged, contain

erroneous contact or entry information or do not conform to or satisfy any condition of the

rules may be disqualified by the Contest Sponsor.

4. PRIZES – One (1) $100 Visa® Gift Card will be awarded each month of the Contest with

a total of nine(9) $100 Visa® Gift Cards (individually “prize” and altogether “prizes”) to be

awarded during the entire Contest Period.

5. DRAW – A random draw by a representative of the Contest Sponsor or the independent

agency from all entries received each month will be made on or about the 15th

following month at the office of Contest Sponsor at 545 Lake Shore Blvd West, Toronto,

Ontario. Selected entrants will be contacted by email or by phone or through their Twitter

6. CONFIRMATION OF WINNER(S) – If the selected entrant cannot be reached within five

(5) business days following the first attempt of contact, incorrectly answers the skill-testing

question, declines the prize, or fails to return a Release of Liability as specified below,

Contest Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to select another entrant or to

To be declared a winner, selected entrants must first correctly answer, unaided, a time-
limited, mathematical skill-testing question administrated by email or posed by phone at a

mutually convenient time; and may need to return a signed Declaration of Compliance with

the Contest Rules and a full Liability and Publicity Release.

7. ACCEPTANCE OF PRIZE(S) – Prize(s) must be accepted as awarded and are not

transferable, redeemable, refundable or exchangeable for cash and not replaceable if lost/

stolen. Contest Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize, in whole or in part, with a

prize of at least equal value in the event of the unavailability, for whatever reason, of the

8. RULINGS – Rulings by Contest Sponsor are final and without appeal in all matters related to

the promotion, the administration of the Contest and the awarding of the prizes.

9. ODDS OF WINNING – Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries. Contest

Sponsor takes no responsibility for lost, stolen, delayed, damaged, misdirected, late or

destroyed entries, or for typographical or other production errors. Contest Sponsor is not

responsible for any errors or omissions in printing or advertising this Contest. All entries

become the property of the Contest Sponsor.

10. CONSENT TO PUBLICITY – By entering this Contest and/or accepting a prize, entrants

consent to the use of their entry, name, city of residence and/or voice, statements, any

photographs or other likenesses for publicity, advertising or informational purposes carried

out by the Contest Sponsor and/or its advertising agencies in any medium or format without

further notice or compensation.

11. LEGISLATION – The Contest is subject to all applicable federal, provincial and municipal

12. COMMUNICATIONS – No communications will be entered into except with selected entrants.

To receive a copy of the list of the winners, send a postage-paid, self-addressed envelope

on or before the Contest Closing Date to: 545 Lake Shore Blvd West, Toronto, Ontario

PRIVACY – Vicinity is collecting personal data about entrants for the purpose of administering

this Contest. No further informational or marketing communications will be received by

entrants unless entrants provide Vicinity with explicit permission to do so. Please see the

Privacy Policy of Vicinity at http://www.rogers.com/web/content/Commitment-to-Privacy for

information on its policy towards maintaining the privacy and security of user information.

13. RELEASE OF LIABILITY – By entering this Contest, entrants release and hold harmless the

Contest Sponsor, its advertising and promotional agencies and the contest judge(s), their

affiliates and respective directors, officers, owners, partners, employees, agents, dealers,

representatives, successors and assigns (collectively the “Releasees”) from any liability in

connection with this Contest or, if declared a winner, the prize.

14. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY – Releasees do not assume any responsibility and each entrant

releases Releasees from any and all claims, actions, damages, loss, injury, costs, demands

and liabilities of whatever nature or kind arising in connection with the Contest and/or prizes

including, without limitation, the administration of the Contest, the selection and confirmation

of Winner, and the awarding and use of the prize.

Contest Sponsor assumes no responsibility for failure of the internet or the website during the

promotional period, for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or

lines, computer on-line systems, servers, access providers, computer equipment, software,

failure of any email or traffic congestion on the internet or at any website, or any combination

thereof including any injury or damage to an entrant’s or any other person’s computer related

to or resulting from playing or downloading any material in the promotion. Contest Sponsor

reserves the right to cancel or suspend this Contest should a virus, bug or other cause

beyond their reasonable control corrupt the security or proper administration of the Contest.

Any attempt to deliberately damage any web site or to undermine the legitimate operation

of this promotion may be a violation of criminal and civil laws. Should such an attempt be

made, Contest Sponsor reserves the right to seek remedies and damages to the fullest

extent permitted by law, including criminal prosecution.

15. This Contest will be run in accordance with these rules, subject to amendment by Contest

Sponsor. Entrants must comply with these rules, and will be deemed to have received and

understood the rules by participating in the Contest. The terms of this Contest, as set out in

these rules, are not subject to amendment or counter-offer, except as set out herein.

©2014 Rogers Communications

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